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Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse (RN)

Execu|Search Type Contract Posted 12/20/2012
Salary $33-$35 per hour Starts 5/20/2013
MA - Massachusetts (All) - Boston Referral - n/a -    
Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse (RN)
Location: Boston, MA
Salary: $33-$35 per hour
Experience: 2.0 year(s)
Job Type: Contract
Job ID: U972629
 
   

About the Opportunity

A prestigious medical center is currently seeking a compassionate and experienced Registered Nurse (RN) to join their Labor & Delivery Unit. The L&D RN is responsible for caring for women who are in labor, having complications during their pregnancy or have recently delivered.

Company Description

Medical Center

Job Description

The Labor & Deliver RN is responsible for:

  • Providing care to women and their newborns during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal stages
  • Assessing mothers and babies to develop individualized plans
  • Administering medications and monitoring fetal heart rates
  • Assisting in inducing labor
  • Working with doctors to design an infant delivery plan and perform other similar tasks
  • Alerting the attending physicians of complications arise
  • Assisting the physicians when epidurals or pain medications are administered, episiotomies are performed, or when the patient requires preparation for a caesarian delivery
  • Recognizing complications and acting quickly in order to stabilize the situation and communicating with the patient, the patient's family, and the appropriate physicians and specialists in order to ensure a safe and healthy delivery
  • Starting IVs
Required Skills
  • 2+ years of Labor and Delivery nursing experience
  • Scrub and Circulate on C/Sections experience
  • NRP/BLS
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail

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